To generate a time and allocation profile, give one of the following RTS options to the compiled program when you run it (RTS options should be enclosed between +RTS...-RTS as usual):
-p
or -P
:The -p
option produces a standard
time profile report. It is written
into the file
program.prof.
The -P
option produces a more
detailed report containing the actual time and allocation
data as well. (Not used much.)
-px
:The -px
option generates profiling
information in the XML format understood by our new
profiling tool, see Section 5.5.
-xc
This option makes use of the extra information maintained by the cost-centre-stack profiler to provide useful information about the location of runtime errors. See Section 4.16.3.